Let it swim
If you have a Bank of America card, you can go to selected Museums for free every first weekend of every month! The first weekend of August is coming up this weekend (god, time just flies so fast) so just thought I should mention it here. Unfortunately, I can’t take the advantage of it this weekend since we’ll be traveling to Boston and we’ll be down by the Cape Cod, laying around the beach… (smile)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is one of them — I have to make it there very soon…
We meant to go to the Block Party that New Museum was having, but we couldn’t find it… well, if that little crowd with lots of kids at the Park, it didn’t look like it was for us and oh my god, it was 100 degrees out so we just walked around and took off.
I have to come back to visit the museum, though.
The building was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa:
You can see a super fast forward video of how the building was built from their website (pretty cool):
There are lots of stencil paints on the street around the Museum:
Last Sunday the 13th was the last day of the ©MURAKAMI exhibition at Brooklyn Museum and we finally made it there! We were there for the opening night, couldn’t get in, we came by one day, it was closing already, so this was our 3rd try.
and of course, everyone waited until the last day, there was a long line:
(I saw Jillian from Project Runway season 4 leaving the museum!)
In the lobby (click to see a larger view)
DOB balloon also in the lobby:
It was very interesting to learn about the artist and the concept behind his work.
The exhibition was huge, 2 floors, filled with his paintings, sculptures, merchandise, walls of his work, rooms of his work…. it was amazing!
There was a special Lui Vuitton store in the middle of the exhibition!
I loved the army pattern – they had a bag made out of this! I couldn’t even ask how much it’d cost, though.
…and security started stopping people photographing so this is it, but wow, it was a great exhibition, I enjoyed it so much.
During our udon tour, we went to MIMOCA – Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art. Genichiro Inokuma (Guen Inokuma) is a great artist from my hometown and his museum was really inspiring.
MIMOCA from outside:
The special exhibition was called “Neue Fotografie” – Photography exhibition by Germany artists.
I couldn’t take any pictures inside the museum, but it is well worth the trip and I highly recommend visiting there if you have a chance.
Some of the Guen’s work:
*Images are from Guen’s Gallery.